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ventral scutum that includes the spinnerets and the absence of 
a stridulating organ between the abdomen and the cephalo- 
thorax. 
Emertonella emertoni (Bryant) 
Euryopis emertoni Bryant, 1933, p. 1, fig. 1. u $ Georgia; 
Thompson’s Mills, (Allard), Banks Coll.” 
Euryopis spinigera Emerton, 1924, p. 143, figs. 4, a-d nec 
Euryopis spinigera O. P.-Cambridge, 1895, p. 146, pi. 19, fig. 2. 
Male. Length, 1.8 mm., ceph. 0.7 mm., abd. 1.1 mm. 
Cephalothorax low and flat, as wide as long, anterior margin 
very little narrowed, thoracic groove short, a group of short 
erect hairs arranged in a diamond pattern anterior to the 
groove; eyes heavily ringed with black, cover anterior margin, 
anterior row recurved, a.m.e. convex, largest of the eight, sepa- 
rated by less than a diameter, almost touching a.l.e., posterior 
row very slightly recurved, lateral eyes touching, p.m.e. sepa- 
rated by about a diameter and from p.l.e. by a radius; quad- 
rangle wider than long, wider in front than behind; clypeus 
higher than quadrangle; mandibles vertical and weak; labium 
wider than long; maxillae twice as long as labium and inclined; 
sternum pale, as wide as long, convex, tip prolonged between 
coxae as a truncate lobe; a row of hairs about margin directed 
inward; abdomen pale gray, the color ending abruptly on the 
sides, oval, more than half as wide as long, (5.0 : 7.0), with 
many long stiff hairs, each from a dark granule, two pairs of 
muscle spots, venter almost covered by an epigastric and infra- 
mammillary scuta, the anterior margin of the former can be 
seen on the dorsum and extends to the middle of the venter, the 
inframammillary scutum almost reaches the middle of the venter 
and dorsally covers the constricted tip of the abdomen, several 
small chitinized spots on sides and between the two large ventral 
scuta, posterior half of the venter with numerous long hairs, 
each from a pit, hairs not as long as those on the dorsum; legs , 
4-1-2 -3, pale, with distal joints darker, no spines and few hairs, 
a tarsal comb on IV tarsus of six stiff bristles; palpus not as 
long as cephalothorax, pale, with terminal joint much darker, 
patella and tibia short and broad, terminal joint broad, embolus 
at tip, a short straight spine, parallel to the large conductor. 
This species was briefly described and figured by J. H. Emer- 
ton in 1924, as Euryopis spinigera O. P.-Cambridge, 1895. 
